Course description
All Bachelor of Environments students must complete the following first year subjects:
880-101 Natural Environments
An understanding of natural systems is crucial for sustainable management and design. This core subject of the Bachelor of Environments degree introduces students to the main systems that shape the natural world. The subject examines the evolution of... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-102 Reshaping Environments
This subject explores how environments shape us and we humans reshape the environment. It examines human attitudes to, impacts on and interactions with the environments in which we live by considering ‘natural', transformed and built... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
PLUS four subjects from the following list:
880-103 Constructing Environments
What are the structural principles and material properties that underpin the form and fabric of the natural and built environments? Through analysis, observation, experimentation, testing and review, students will explore examples and applications fr... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-104 Designing Environments
This subject provides an introduction to how people identify needs and wants and devise ways of satisfying them through built or engineered manipulation of the environment. Students will consider the antecedents, processes, actors and consequences of... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
880-105 Governing Environments
Natural and built environments and their resources have been the source of conflicting claims over rights of access, ownership and use. These contests have in turn led to the creation of a wide range of approaches to regulate such claims. In this sub... Semester 1 12.50
880-106 Mapping Environments
In this subject students will learn how information is used to support decision making in urban and rural environments. This includes methods of data collection, mapping, information communication through visualisation, and decision-support systems. ... Semester 2 12.50
880-107 Urban Environments
To understand why cities have become the most common living environment today, this subject will be built around three questions: what is ‘the urban' and why have cities formed and expanded?; how do we analyse the environments of con... Semester 2 12.50
880-108 Virtual Environments
To plan or design requires the imagining of worlds yet to exist. Drawings and models undertaken with analogue or digital media operate as virtual environments that articulate proposals for environmental change in the physical world. An understanding ... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
100 level
* 620-155 Calculus 2 (Taken as Breadth)
* 620-156 Linear Algebra (Taken as Breadth)
* 880-103 Constructing Environments
200 level
* 436-291 Engineering Mechanics
* 421-289 Earth Processes for Engineering
* 421-290 Engineering Materials
* 620-293 Engineering Mathematics
300 level
* 400-306 Fluid Mechanics
* *ENGR3XXXX Risk Analysis
* *ENGR3XXXX Systems Modelling and Design
Two level 2 or 3 subjects chosen from the following disciplines: geomatics, biology, environmental economics/management. Such as:
200 level
* 620-298 Data Analysis 2**
* 654-219 Ecology
* 207-250 Greening Landscapes
* 208-279 Plants in the Environment**
* 316-208 Economics of the Environment**
* 121-018 Geomorphology*
* 121-033 Environmental Hydrology**
* 325-220 Business in the Global Economy
* 207-209 Land Water and Food Economy 1
* 207-203 Techniques of Resource Assessment
* 451-203 Land Law
300 level
* 654-313 Ecology in Changing Environments**
* 625-335 Global Climates of the Past**
* 207-339 Hydrology and Catchment Management
